I thought a fun new banner for spring was in order. We still have a little snow on the ground here but with all the sun lately that we’ve been getting it’s only a matter of days until it’s all gone. Yippee!! I just love spring!

We had a wonderful day yesterday celebrating not only Easter but my daughter’s 15th birthday as well! After church my husband and I took just my daughter out for a special birthday lunch. This is a tradition we have with our kids and they love it because they get mom and dad all to themselves. For supper she picked Shephard’s Pie for dinner and Peanut Butter Pie for dessert. For the Shepherd’s Pie we did a version of this recipe and it was really good but the best part of dinner was by far the dessert. Oh my heavens, was this Peanut Butter Pie recipe ever delicious. I’m pretty sure it’s my new go to dessert. Super easy and yummy, yummy, yummy!

Love the new spring banner!! Hope you had a blessed Easter with your family celebrating His amazing gift to us. Glad you’ll get to enjoy ham this week, even though that Shepherd’s pie looks quite good — I love ham leftovers :) We tried that fettuccine ham bake and really enjoyed it.

Looks like a yummy week at your house Laura. I’ve been MIA in the menu planning department for the last two weeks, thought I was to busy to make one. Boy was I wrong! I was to busy, NOT to have one. Glad to be back on the menu planning bandwagon. Thanks for hosting and have a great week! :)

We celebrated our daughter’s 16th birthday this weekend, too (though her actual b-day was March 29) – and she picked a peanut-butter & chocolate cheesecake. Teens really like their peanut butter, I guess. :-)

Oh, and I took your advice and I’m just signing my daughter up to cook some days – she actually doesn’t mind it…but she doesn’t offer it either, so just scheduling it in on the menu works for us. :-) Another reason to love menu planning!

Love the banner! My parents always took us out for a birthday dinner too! It’s something I’m still trying to implement with my hubs and kids. It’s really such a great parent child bonding time without all the siblings there to distract.

I love ham! I do one in the crock pot for Christmas, but I bake one for Easter (since there’s no turkey hogging up the oven, pardon the pun). I’m Russian Orthodox, so our Easter is this coming Sunday…and I can’t wait!!

Thanks for hosting, Laura! Ooh…and BTW…I made the Rainbow Spring Dessert yesterday, since I had family over for dinner — even though it wasn’t a holiday, and they’ll all be back again this week, LOL! Everyone LOVED it!

I have always wanted to plan the whole week’s meals in advance to efficiently use ingredients, thank you for all the ideas! And I LOVE using my crock-pot, I can’t wait to try the honey glazed ham… yum!